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Daily Photo: 05/02/10 – Number 16 in days gone by

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16 St Alfege Passage

Number 16 St Alfege Passage is now rather well known for being the B&B run by local actor, Robert Gray. But before it was turned into a guesthouse, it was F. Taylor’s corner shop and as this picture – provided by Robert – shows, it sold groceries, cakes, bread and Wall’s Ice cream.

Robert also gave me a copy of this sketch below which shows the preliminary workings of a painting of Number 16 by the artist, John Christopherson. Robert would very much like to track down the finished painting that came from this sketch.

Sketch of Number 16

Daily Photo: 04/02/10 – Ormiston Road

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Thanks to Fergal Spelman who contributed this photo of the railings at the junction of Halstow Road and Ormiston Road. He explains:

The photo shows a railing damaged when a car slid into it during the snow a month ago. A number of cars coming down the hill (over the railway bridge) just went straight on when the drivers braked and into this railing. Despite it being close to Halstow School and a very busy pedestrian area, the council has so far only managed to place bollards to mark it but done nothing to repair the damage and make the footpath safe again.